Town Bridge

The “Bridge with a Town on top,” Town Bridge is a teeming mass of trade and humanity crammed between the Great East Bridge Gate and the Royal West Bridge Gate — a distance of half a mile. Town Bridge has taken advantage of its curious taxation laws that do not recognise the bridge as part of the city. Therefore, lodgings and traders that live on it are exempt from taxes (although a tax is charged to enter the bridge from the east gate).
It is thus the home to the most scurrilous, greedy and unpleasant group of rogue landlords ever assembled. A dozen families may share a room; three generations of the same family may find themselves lodging in a shack lashed to the side of a balcony of one of the Great Town Bridge Towers; or a cupboard even may be let as a flat. As a result, the whole town has grown out over the river and sits like a fat timber whale in the Lyme.
Town Bridge has its own language (Bridge-Slang), its own ruler (the aranae Crown Prince Justice Cornlord, one of the most prominent of the thirteen Justices in the city), and encompasses one of the most difficult and time-consuming journeys in the city to cross (it is often said it is easier to climb than walk across Town Bridge). Many folk set out from the West Gate armed with rations to ensure a safe crossing.

Type

District

Location under

The Great Lyme